咸

Etymology · 词源

“咸”的历史构形可以这样理解：戌主要提示意义范围；口的历史作用尚不明确。这些部件的作用依据历史字形判断，不等同于今天看到的任意笔画组合。 以上是各字的历史构形说明；“咸”作为现代词语时，应结合完整词义学习，不能把单字意义机械相加。

Depicts a massacre with a weapon (戌), based on the original meaning "slaughter; terminate". The meaning later shifted to "finish", "complete", and "all". In simplified Chinese 咸 is also used to mean "salty", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 鹹. These notes explain the characters’ formation. Learn 咸 as a complete modern word rather than mechanically adding isolated character meanings.

Learning note · 学习提示：形旁通常提示意义范围，声旁通常提示较早的读音；现代普通话读音或字义可能已经发生变化。